That didn't actually make anything about gaming better and I say this as a teen from the 80's. I am sure if gaming went back to the way it was 20 or 30 years ago, people would grow tired of it quickly.

This has much to do with the changeover from CRT to thin panels, and geez I do NOT miss the extreme weight of those tube TVs. But because of the technology (almost no input or scaling lag) gaming felt a lot more responsive. PC gamers have always cherished high frame rate and response, but for some reason the switch to HD made console gamers forget.

Even fancy converters like the OSSC or Framemeister don't fully compensate for the lag of modern panels (although they get close).

Better professional journalism and fair scoring of games. None of this clickbait rubbish, marking games up or down to create controversy clicks. If a game was poor at release, it got scored as so, and didn't get points for potential.

Also, no comments sections for trolls in magazines eh?

No console wars, as it is today. If I wanted to play Phantasy Star or Sonic, I went to a mate's house and played, or swapped him my SNES for a while so he could play Mario or Super Metroid.

There were actually pretty cool things you could do with memory cards that you can't do with HDDs. My friend and I used to play Tekken 5 at his place and I could face his characters with custom costumes with my own as they were on my memory card.

Having the complete game is the number one thing I miss though. I also miss instruction manuals, not needing updates or patches and being able to play games right away once they're placed in the system's disc drive or cart slot, oh, and demo discs.